EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- It is noteworthy that the committee of the overseers, in their recent report, absolutely neglected, in enumerating the various athletic sports at college, to mention the most popular one, that which is free from the numerous moral and physical abuses to which, it is said, the others are subject. I mean tennis. It is the most popular, if we may judge by the number who take exercise in the various games It is not brutal, or dangerous; nor does the excitement of the contest tend to cause participants or spectators "to resort to methods which their cooler judgment would condemn." Furthermore, this game gives ample opportunity for developing sound bodies, without drawing too much on the store of energy needed primarily for brain work. Tennis does not tend "to divide the students into two classes, those devoted to athletics, and those taking no interest in physical exercise at all," or "to discourage a general habit of athletic exercise."

A game with such manifest advantages, it is plain, should enjoy the protection and bounty of the authorities of the colleges. The generosity which recommends laying out new play-grounds should first make the land already laid out accessible to all students. Now, the tennis association finds it necessary to charge players fifteen to twenty-five cents apiece every time they play. One dollar to a dollar and a half a week for exercise, the majority of students feel, operates as a protective tariff for the sod. As a result, many students are prevented from indulging in this irreproachable form of exercise. The treasury which can open its vaults for a trainer and a running track and can pay for "the preparation of a large arege area of land for use as a college playground" cannot plead poverty to the demand for free tennis.

O. R. H.